yay. took me about 5 minutes and 10 goes to get it.....

....and i only once said "where's the fucking rose" to myself!

I took some dice around with me to various people and had them answer the question as well. Out of 4 people, one took three tries. One took one try. Another took two, and the other took about five. First is a college graduate about to start a doctoral program, second works for EBGames and has no higher education, third ... I don't know his education, but he seemed kind of slow, and the fourth is in the second year of his doctoral program.

Maybe this says something about our educational system?

That they don't spend time teaching silly dice games? I don't think I'll be asking the kid who works in game retail to be doing any important scientific work, myself.

Certainly not, but both of the highly educated people I asked had trouble thinking creatively about the puzzle, whereas the people that haven't been hammered into shape by the educational system figured it out right away.

I'm going to take some dice with me to a little get-together I'm attending tonight and see if people can figure it out there.

you'll be the life and soul of the party!

Got it on the first try. I qualified for Mensa, went to three meetings and was bored out of my mind.
Though I got it, I kinda' feel like it was not really a "game", more of a trick question.

Agreed on the trick question bit. After asking 4 more people, the only person that didn't get it within two tries was a doctor, and she just didn't feel like solving a puzzle while cooking.

bump.

I got it in 6 tries. Actually, I think I got the idea in 3 tries but must have 'added' wrong so then I tried a couple more things before coming back.

Took me a while, but I got it. It also took reading the entire thread and taking some advice from previous posters

I played with it for a while a few days ago. The original link didn't work but I googled up one that did, and which also randomly added different colors to each die.
I ran through about 6 combinations, didn't get it, and left it to do other things. I kept turning it over though, and had figured out some things to try. One of them was very close but needed a little fine tuning. :) So ... what, two days... does that make me a genius or a moron?